Kichae

How I wish I was in Sherbrook noowwwwwwwwwww

I’ve noticed a sudden spike in the number of websites that send me into a Cloudflare spiral whenever I have my VPN active. I think we might see this happening on a lot more sites soon, unfortunately.

The thing is, what a lot of people mean by “the old, weird internet” is Twitter in 2012 and YouTube before it became professionalized. They don’t mean usenet, Geocities, and perl-based chatrooms because they didn’t experience the Internet prior to the iPhone app store.

No, no. There’s little evidence that LLMs could do your job. That’s very different from the LLMs “taking” your job. All business owners need is the belief – grounded or not – that the LLMs will eventually be able to do your job, and for way less than you were being paid.

Neither will be true, of course, but business decisions are not based on truth.

You mean the AOSP project that only supports hardware sold by the assholes we’re trying to get away from?

Hard pass.

It’s going to be bad, too. These companies are repportedly selling tokens for 1/10 - 1/15 the actual processing costs. Companies are already spending significantly more than they would junior developers (to generate an un-revewable amount of code). Raising peices by a factor of 20 will kill the whole project dead. They’ll need to hold out until there’s no one left who knows how to write anymore to survive that kind of price hike.

Yes, but federation isn’t really about enabling one singular discussion space. Network splits are ultimately healthy for the communities, because it allows for self-governance and actual community building, rather than unmanageably large masses screaming into themaatically named voids, controlled by a handful of super-mods and super-admins.

Distributed networks are meant to be, well, distributed, not quasi-centralized with some fun URLs used as dumb terminals.

Yup. And costs right now are rising while they’re still in the “get everybody hooked” stage of things, in no small part because they can’t survive at current prices. Anthropic is desperate to get to their IPO so they can have the warchest they need to actually become an established integral part of development pipelines and not just a fad.

My Haswell 4770k died last year after 13 years in service. I replaced it with a used AMD 5800X with 32GB DDR4 for $100. As soon as I heard about the RAM shortages, I grabbed another 64GB.

Not only am I ready to ride out this bubble, buy I’m fucking around with local LLM models just to be a snot about it.

It’s true. I’m sorry I definitely said we should all hide in the corner. I should have probably have not said that using real words that actually came from me and have not been inserted into my fucking mouth by some finger wagging bystander looking for a soapbox to well-akshually from.

Awesome. Something to keep me away from big wrbsites and on the small web.

It’s amazing how passionate bootlickers are about text prediction and the capturing of the commons.

The billionaires aren’t going to love you backv bro.

That’s a problem, but the bigger issue is how the commercial models are tuned to tell you that you are never wrong.

Or, more to the point, telling people who don’t know what they’re talking about that they’re never wrong.

It just agreed with the accusations, because these models do what they’re trained to do: Agree with the prompter.

They also never knew. They went from being tech nerds dyring a timewhere tech was very expensive and limited to venture capitallists. These were never “normal” people.

Governments work for whoever acts like their bosses. The people don’t act that way, and oligarchs do, so here we are.

Well, most of us know how to deal with all of those, and the vast majority of them haven’t been an issue for the average user for, like, decades now. No one’s fucking with compatubility mode post, like, 2004.

Meanwhile, most of the help you get when trying to solve issues on Linux are command line commands that are not explained by the helper and which we have no idea what they actually do.

The fight I had just to get my printer to work. The fight I’m still having to get my audio interface to work consistently.

It’s not an abstraction of search, though. It’s a conditional regurgitation of the entire Internet with randomization. That is significantly and meaningfully different.

It’s not finding text or context matches and reproducing them, it’s guessing the next word based off of the steaming pile of horse shit people have dumped over the Internet in attempts to garner attention or scam others.

AI is always great at things I don’t know how to do, and right about things I don’t know about, but bad at the things I know how to do (often in ways that are subtle but ultimately catastrophic), and wrong about the things I know about (often in ways that are sneaky or nuanced, but which lead to gross misunderstandings).

Not sure how they managed to tune it to me, *n particular, so precisely, but those geniuses working on it sure do know their stuff!

/s

Oh, I hope this kills them. I’m desperate to never use Confluence or Jira ever again.